Nilotica nilotica

No picture of Nilotica nilotica was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nilotica nilotica firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13.82 Mya2.58 Mya16.5 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Nilotica nilotica on record, most of them in the Pliocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

11 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EMaboko — 0.15°N, 34.62°E

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The named rock units Nilotica nilotica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nilotica nilotica and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Nilotica nilotica and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

133 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Nilotica nilotica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

7 references

Each of the 11 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Structured light scan

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Specimen
Gelochelidon nilotica nilotica · FMNH:Birds:368883

No picture of Nilotica nilotica was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nilotica nilotica firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.